This paper studies the effect of labor market reform on the welfare cost of business cycles. Motivated by the German labor market reforms of 2003-2005, the so-called Hartz reforms, the paper focuses on two labor market institutions: the unemployment insurance system determining search incentives...

Winners and losers from offshore outsourcing : what is to be done? / Eva Paus -- The challenge of the growing globalization of labor markets to economic and social policy / Richard Freeman -- Offshoring and labor recommodification in the global transformation / Guy Standing -- Globalization of...

El trabajo pone en evidencia las consecuencias de la crisis para la situacion laboral. El autor revisa los principales factores economicos que llevaron a la crisis internacional y los mecanismos por los cuales esta se trasmitio a los paises de America Latina. Se caracteriza el comportamiento...